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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

TONIGHT: MSNBC Digs Into Crime Stat Controversy

MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes reports tonight on "the controversy surrounding Chicago's plummeting crime stats," building on the extensive springtime reporting of Noah Isackson and David Bernstein in Chicago magazine.

Absolutely not different topics, money that could have gone into hiring police was used for bike lanes, which by the way have destroyed traffic flow have you seen the monstrosity on Broadway? Horrible...

I have better things to do with my time than to watch some mayoral Jabberwocky Alice in wonderland political bullshit about what's happening here ain't real, on a bought and paid for propaganda TV channel that is afraid to call him out on his b.s. for fear of losing access to the 5th floor and the million dollar political campaign donation advertising fund that goes with it.

CPD's and Rahm's snow jobs were fully expected, like they are implementing New York's tactics, like they have a clue what they are.

If McCarthy came from Newark, NJ, that is NOT a good sign. That city is worse than ever.

Not surprisingly, crime was equated to just homicides, as though you are still fine if you stay just out of the South and West Sides. That was true until 2010, not now. It was good that it mentioned how they cook the stats with Comstsat, that Rahmy eliminated 1,400 CPD positions, and that the city is flat broke, but nothing on their ridiculous expenditures with bikes, Beach WiFi, and parks.

The various MSNBC personalities tend to rerun the topic among themselves. Perhaps, Rachel Maddow or Steve Kornacki (also gay) should be notified to focus on our area.

Former news reporter here. We always have to ask for the official response. Our mayor honed his P.R. skills in the White House where he coined that term "spin", meaning spinning the news in order to get favorable press coverage or to distract from unfavorable press coverage. Typical example of this spinning: when citizens complain about crime and then the police chief tells us its just a "perception" because crime is down according to his Compustat manipulated statistics. Compustat is just downgrading/not reporting crime, nothing but a gimmick.

I'm wondering if the city could held liable if a tourist came to downtown Chicago and was mugged or assaulted and seriously injured. Emanuel and McDrunky, and the tourism office never warn tourists of the crime that takes place downtown. Maybe the tourism office should be required to put a waring on their brochures similar to the warnings on cigarette packages.

I really wish the MSNBC report took time to cover the Boystown/Lakeview/Wrigleyville areas as noted in Chicago Magazine instead of focussing so heavily on the south and west sides. Nationally, people still don't have a clue as to what is going on here.

It's never going to change as long as people are brain washed and are low information voters. Just look at the stupid sign Sidetrack put up bashing Bruce Rauner. What Rauner said as taken totally out of context but all the 20 something that do vote will believe Sidetrack's spin of what Rauner said. Chicago will never change because of the low information voters. Rauner is against gay marriage, crime is down. It's all spin and people are dumb enough to believe it.